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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20


Political questions are settled by con-
ventions. Agtators OF social reform
meet together ana discuss methods Of
advancing their cause. Business men,
commercial travellers, Knights of Labor
and strong minded women all meet to
talk of ways and means, review their
past success or failure, and mark out
future course of action The American
society of Professors of Dancing, have
just been deciding a weighty matter con-
nected with their work. As our club
dances are about to begin, some of the
decisions at which they arrived may be
opportune, rs we have not all had the
benefit of professional instruction in the
Terpsichorean art. Among other things
they settled the much-di sputed ques-
ton of the proper way for a gentleman
to hold his partner in waltz. According
to this high authority, "the gentleman
places his right arm around the lady's
waist, and his hand against her back.
The ladvs hand will rest against the
gentlemau's shoulder, the finger closed
and curved, and the tips resting on the
right shoulder. Tho lady's right hand
should be closed and placed in the left
palm of the gentleman, with the
knuckles uppermost, instead of down as
heretofore. (rake notice of the change
from last years fashion,. This is done
10 protect the lady's hands from acci-
dent when collidng with doors and fur
uiture In all cases gloves are to
be worm Now that this point has
been decided by the national conven-
ton, there i. no appeal to higher tri-
bunal, and the decision will have to be
regarded as final And now If YOU can
dance, as we'll as hold the lady's hand
properly, there is fun ahead for you.
Follow these directions carefully and
we venture to assert that sill the girls
will say your department is beauti-
full y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20

A WOMAN'S DISCOVERY "An-
other wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by a lady in this
country. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood itsseverest tests, but her vital or
gans were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months
she coughed necessarily and could not
sleep, She bought of us bottle of
Dir. Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton and was so much relieved on TAX
ing the first dose, that she slept all
night and with one bottle has been
miraculously cured. Her name is
Mrs Luther Lutz." Thus write w. C.
Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, N. C.-Get
free trial bottle at Stone and Hassell's
drug store.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20

Five men were injured in the sham
fight at Newport, October 18th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20


RESCUED FROM DEATH William
j. Coughlin of Somerville, Mass, says:
sin the fall of 1876 l was taken with
Bleeding of Lungs following byia severe
cough. lost my appetite and flesh,
and was confined to my bed. In 1877
/ was admitted to the hospital. The
doctors said had hole in my lung as
big as half dollar. At one time re-
port went around that | was dead. l
gave up hope, but friend told me of
DR.. William Halls Balsam for the
Lungs. got bottle. when to my sur
pris, commenced. to get well, and to-
day feel better than for three years"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20
BBnSold by druggists, rs cts.
Silva CATARRH CURE

DR.. VIM. j. Couley who is also a
druggist at Elk Point, Dakota, says:
"Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy has given the best
satisfaction of any medicine in the
market" Sold by A. Fl. Barber. 28w4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20

HALL'S-T is more Catarrh in
this section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and until
the last few years was supposed to be
incurable, For great many years
Doctors proounced it a local disease, and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven Catarrh to be a consti-
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only consti-
tutional cure now on the market. 1t is
taken internally IN doses from 10 drops
to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly upon
the blood andmucus surfaces of the sys
tenn. They offer one hundrad dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circular and testimonials. Address,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20
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Lot -. ....... Geo Kendrick -. 10 II
Laird and Johnson's Addition to Montfort
Lot 3 OF blk land
next to depot. Henry Eastman. II %
TOWN z, RANGE I-CASTLE ROCK.
Nek nw4 .... So Roger Mills. 68
Wa nwA ........ 35lRoger Mills. 90
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20

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Lots 2. 3, 8 and unkHown. .....,,. Z
Lots l. and 3. se y W Kendall . 5
Lots aud ... IS BlanfOrd estate . 2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
GEORGIA'S CONVICT SYSTEM.
Public Attention Again Directed to It's Abuses.
and Its Abolition Likely to Follow.

New YORK, July "a special to the Tribune
from Atlanta says: 1.-THE convict question in
Georgia is again to the fore, and sensational
developments are to be expected aeany moment.
1t is now the general opinion that the lease sys-
tenn will be abolished and the convicts all put to-
work on the public roads. The abuses of the
system have justified the Rev. DR.. Fultons
sweeping dsnunciatiop. Some of the convicts
have been inhumanly treated. One man who
lost his shoes made to walk barefoot over
hot BRICKS and was afterward beaten with
leather tracR- strap because he complained of the
keepers cruelty. In instance the convcts
were frozen SO badly that some of them died
and others lost the use of their limbs In ons
that the toes dropped off Badly cooked
rations. spoiled meat, unclean and
horribly ventilated quarters made tbs
death rate appallingly high at times Epidemics
were, or course, by no means uncommon. Com
paint was followed by additionally cruel treat
ment Men and women were sometimes chained
together, whites and blacks alike and made to
work from daylight until dark. Fevers and pes
thence were not uncommon. These facts are
Cleaned from reports made by the physicians
ana from statements made by DISCHARGED con-
victs The truth will out. it has bee % said, but
In TINS matter 1t has been a long time coming to
the light Governor Gordon is highly commend
ed Tor the attitude he has taken in this matter,
and pubic sentiment is undoubtedly cyrstalliz-
ing IN favor of the total abolition of the lease
system.
I'm the meantime the duel between ex- Governor
Smith and DR.. Westmoreland is likely to come
OH at any time, and when it does they will be
expected to fight to the death az both ara men
of great determination"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
Docs in California have never reached the dig

Docs in California have never reached the dig
nifty of being rated as taxable property until
within the last year. Now the citizens of San
Francisco who owners of canine pets raise
the point that since they p ay taxes on the ami
mails as property the city authorities have no
right to impose q license fee in addition. For
merly the license was paid to the city for its
protection of their lives. Not being property
they would have been at the mercy of any one
who chose to kill them and the owners would
have had no legal redress; the city for the pay
ment of an annual sum assumed protection of
an animal and for this purpose the license was
willingly paid Now that the dog is recognized
as a piece of property and is under the charge
of the State it is argued that the city has no
right to impose any additional tax and most as
suredly has right to deprive him of life in case
such license is not secured. A settlement of this
question will interest owners of dogs in Indian
apols, where the situation is similar to that in
San Francisco.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
Fatal Fight Between Farmers

TOPEKA, Kan, july 9-Some time ago a dis.
pute arose between Wearon j. Carman. res;.
dent of Harper county, and two neighbors
named Woodruff The latter contested Carmar,.
claim to land near Meade Centre on the ground
that he had broken fractional part of an acrs
less than the law required to make his ritls
clear. The courts sustained Carman. and he re.
crops. Yesterday the Woodruffs tried to drive
himfrom his corn patch and he refused 10 o.
Oldsman Woodruff thereupon took aim at him
with shotgun, but, before he pulled the TRIO
ger, Carrnan knocked the muzzle up the cbarea
tearing away part of his scalp In the fight tn :
ensued Carman worsted the old man and th
young Woodruff came to the rescue FIRING 80
loads of slugs into Carman's body from donh,a1
barreled shotgun, infiicting wounds from wn;nh
Carman died. The assailants were arrested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
THE INTERSTATE LAW.
Receiver McNulta Decides to Ignore the
Fourth Section and Take His Chances,

CHICAGO July 9.-Receiver McNulta. of the
Wabash Eastern railway, has decided to ignore
Section of the interstate commerce law in so
far it applies to traffic over his lines from
Peoria or Chicago to the East. To compete for
through traffic from Peoria to the East his road
being circuitous route, is compelled to make
tho same rate. or less, than is made by other
competing lines The Peoria rate, as now es-
tablished. Gen. McNulta says, is low enough.
and he takes the same position as regards the
rate from Jacksonville. He therefore, has de-
cided to take through business from Peoria at
ITO per cent of the Chicago rate, and at tho
same time to charge 100 per cent from Jackson
vile and correspondinsly from intermediate
stations, thus making the rate for the long haul
from Peoria 10 per cent. less than for ths
shorter one from Jacksonville. He takes the
sa me position as regards east-bound traffic from
Chicago. TO take business east from Chicago
over his line, circuitous route via Bernent iii.
has to be taken. He claims that hs cannot
afford TO reduce the intermediate rates this side
OF Bement He, therefore. will compete for
east-bound through traffic from Chicago at the
regular traffic rates, but will charge higher
rates from local intermediate stations, in ac-
cordance with the agreed percentage basis thua
making the rate from Bement, for instance on
Der cent higher than the rate from Chicago.
General McNulta claims that, according to his
construction Of the law, he can do this, although
it may look like a clear violation thereof He
does not believe that the law contemplated the
ruination of weaker lines, which the strict an
forcement of it would surely bring about The
Wabash, he says, is 30 situated that 1t woula
either have to go ont of the through traffic from
Peoria or Chicago east, or make enormously
low rates from intermediate stations which =
cannot afford to do. He, therefore, proposes to
construe the law to meet the exigencies of hi.
road and take his chances to be brought before
the commission or the courts for violating it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BOB INGERsoLL is said to be writing a life of
St Paul The eloquent pagan says Paul is one
OF the greatest and grandest men in history.
W. w. CoRcoRAN is slowly growing stronger
at Deer Park, but he will, in all probability,
never walk again. His mental faculties are as
vigorous as ever.
IT is said that when the wind blows from the
south on June 81 the next three months will be
very hot and the wind was from that quarter
on the longest day of this year.
j. r.. WHIPPLE, proprietor of Younc's Hotel,
Boston, has recently taken out $500 900 insur-
ance upon his life. OF this $4,000 is life pol
icy. 100000 is twenty years endowment, and
$500 600 Is fifteen years endowment. He proposes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
That Sale of Manhattan stock

NEW YORK, July 9.-The following letter
which has just been received. explains itself:
NEW YORK, july 8.
10 the Agent of the Associated Press:
Dear Sir-So many conflicting reports having
oeen circulated IN regard to The late sale OF
manhattan railway stock, 1 think 1t proper to
give through you, the exact facts. Myself and
my associates did sell IS. 600 shares of Man
haitian stock to Mr.. jay Gould, Internationally,
at $l20 cash per share, and / wish further TO
stare. explicitly, that MIR. Gould has acted
tnroughout the transaction in a perfectly
STRAIGHTFORWARD manner, and that the most
friendly feeling exists between u.s. have no
IDEA OF resigning as director of the Manhattan
hallway Company. and my opinion as TO the
future development of this property remains
unchanged Yours faithfully,
.CYRUs w FIELD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

A MAINE Surday-school superintendent late
ly forbade the bringing of canned lobster to the
annual picnic on the grounds that the frequent
fatalities arising from the use of that dainty led
him to fear that there was death in the can as
well as the lobster. Outside Of Maine canned
lobster is not a picnic staple but ice-cream is,
and the severe illness of fifty New Workers. who
partook of that confection on the Fourth sug
&c SITS q fear. that it. too, will soon be prohib-
tied. With ice-cream gone what is left to make
life endurable at the Sunday school picnics in
Juiv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
Georee Gonid VERY s,en

NEW YORK, July George j. Gould was ta,rar
violently i'll yesterday morning at the Oriental
Hotel, Coney island. physician was ann.
moned. and fQand young Mr.. Gould prostra,aa
by sharp attack of intermittent fever. Tn ~
a late hour tonight Mr.. Gould's family wers ~
constant attendance at his bedside, and his Wiz
is greatly alarmed at the distressing situation
DR.. Sanborn stated To night that it was too enri.,
to determine how much danger there ia in h.
patients attack of fever, but he ADDED that Mr.
Gould is very sick man, and will lot be able =.
leave his bed for week or so. y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

Mr.. CYRUS W. FIELD cards the public to
the effect that ne did sell large block of
Manhattan stock to Jay Gould, and that the
latter "acted throughout the transaction in
perfectly straightforward manner, and the
most friendly feeling exists between U.s."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

IT looks as if the fact that Prince Ferdinand
is Roman Catholic will initiate against his
recognition by Russia as King of Bulgaria.
The Greek religion is established there and
Greek orthodoxy will probably be insisted up
on as an essential justification in the estima-
ton Of the Cars government for the occu-
pant of the Bulgarian throne
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
Fatal Boiler Exn,os,o,

OsKALoosA, Ia. july 9.-Encneer John
snort and James Huckisk were fatally injured
oy the explosion of = boiler in the Excelsior
mine this afternoon. she cause of the ex-
plosion is unknown
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

A WRITER in the July Cosmopolitan makes
the rather surprising statement that Horace
Greeley's favorite poet was Robert Browning
If Greeley were alive he could count rpon Bos-
toms Gold support in q presidential campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

JACOB SHARP king Of the New York hood
lers, has lost forty pounds since his trial be-
gan, and is still losing flesh daily. His family
and attending physician think he will not
hold out much longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE people Of st. Louis now propose to
pipe Mr. Cleveland there by town meeting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

EX-GOVERNOR SHEPHERD, once notorious
as Boss" Shepherd, is on his way to Wash
ington from Mexico, and will spend some
time in this country to recuperate his health.
There are many people in Washington who
think he deserves and will yet be honored
with monument for his services in improv-
ing and identifying that city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

OscAE J. HARVEY, the trusted Treasury
clerk who has been caught swindling the
government said in his confession to the
Secretary that he had been driven to it by
pecuniary necessities. brought upon him by a
rSiaar with whom he had been in partnership,
and who ever since he had received his
appointment in the Treasury had goaded him
on to make the most of his opportunities. It
is the old story of weak man subjected to
TEMPTATION which he could not resist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

MISTAKES are sometimes made, even by
the best-intentioned mobs. Here is a case in
point: In August, 1884, three men were
hanged at Scottsboro, Ala, for burning a
house. On Friday last convict in the Ala
bama penitentiary confessed on his death-bed
that the three men executed had nothing to
do with the burning of the house, as he had
set it on fire himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

THE Hon. John-P p. Usher, of Lawrence, in
his testimony before the Union Pacific Rail-
road Commission, said that when the advan-
tages of Omaha as terminal point of the road
were first presented to President Lincoln, he
remarked: Eve got a quarter section of
land near there, and if locate the terminus
d: that point people will say I am personally
interested in the matter" The fear of this,
however, did not prevent President Lincoln
from deciding finally in favor Of Omaha.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

CHRISTIAN science" is as useless as the
prayer cure or the faith cure in cases of cam
GER A Boston doctor of the regular variety
gives narrowing account of the sufferings
and death of woman afflicted with cancer
who insisted that nothing was the matter.
Quacks even of the Christian variety, the
doctor insists, cannot cure this disease. It
may be added that the success of regular
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10

THOMAS ED1soN's latest alleged discovery
In regard to the transmission of messages at
sea seems to be of rather doubtful utility,
even if the plan could be put into actual
operation Sea captains already have sys-
tenn of signals which is thoroughly under
stood and answers every ordinary need for
communication between passing vessels To
do away with this and to depend upon the
uncertainties Of electrical messages would be
very unwise and such change is not likely to
be ,nade, though as q mere curiosity and as
an amusement for passengers the Edison
transmitters may DO attached to steam
ships. Not long since it was announced,
With great flourish of trumpets, that this in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10


the side of running stream. There the blacks
lived with their wive and children. Each fam
lily was as much as pssible employed in the
same work in the fell the forests, or the work.
shops so that its md sbers were not scattered
during working houE. At the head Of these
villages was a sub-oisrseer, acting as mayor
practically. with his headquarters in the private
grounds OF Candles 'say. These grounds were
Enclosed by high palsade, of which the pointed
stakes rose vertically, half hidden beneath the
verdure of the exuberant vegetation. Inside it
rose the private house of the Burbank family
Half house and half castle, it had appropriately
been called Castle House
For many years Candies Bay had belonged
there was fear OF Indian depredations. the
owners had fortified the principal house. The
time was not very distant when Gen. Jessup de-
Tended Florida against the Seminoles The
colonists had suffered much from these nomads
Not only did they rob them. but they added
murder to the burning of their homes. Even
the towns were threatened with invasion and
pillage. In many a spot the ruins that 4.
blood thirsty Indians left smoking behind ther,
Less than fifty miles from Camdless Kav thar..
was still to be seen 1.-THE house of bloodn i,
which Mr. Motto and his wife aud three 5arch-
tiers had been scalped and massacred nv The
Seminoles But the war of DETERMINATION batu...
the "niae man and the red man ls practicable
over the seminoies were conquered and sonoht
refuge 70 the west of the Mississippi. People
SPOKE OF tnem no more. though few hard.
still roamed among the marshes 81 Sa,..s.1
Florida. S'usnern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10


Her bow, pushed off by the long poles. took the
wheels. helped by the ebbing tide, she elided
rapidly between the banks of the ST. Johns.
Texar and the five or six companions who had
embarked with him, had thought well to go below
70 one of the boxes in the dining-room. There
with throats seasoned to the strongest drinks of
American bars, they tossed off whole glasses of
DIN and Bourbon whisky. They were indeed a
-oreh lot rude in habit and speech. wearing more
leather than cloth, and more accustomed to live
IN the woods than in cities. Texar appeared to
have some right of superiority over them. due,
a. to his position and means When Texar did
the time in drinking.
Texar. after carelessly running his eye over
one of the newspapers which Uttered the dining
room tables. had just thrown it aside. saying:
.That is all old news"
81 believe you," said of his companions,
atbe paper is three days old
aAnd good many things happen in three
davis" added another.
..What is the latest about the WARP asked
Texar.
nAs far as we are concerned, the latest is that
the federals are preparing an expedition against
Florida. and that means we may expect an in
yasion of Northerners"
\ SIS that trueF'
a ~ don't know. but heard of it at Savannah,
and heard of it again at st. Augustine"
.Well. let these federals GOMEZ exclaimed
Texar, striking his fist on the table. to make
The Washington critic., 1887-02-12
CITY NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The CRiTic's ddrot'sipg rates arc iorr
hda any ddaypdpor IN lidshMgioh
II is increasing ia circulation Guicr Ndh
all hc other city papers.
VIA lis iog ra'es anil rccoq1i.cd populnr-
hy IL is the jc1 medium for ddcotising il
hc Disirid.
u Is deliteed Jy carriers at % co,is per-
month.
John Jones, colorcd man G5 years
old, dropped dead in Louise alley this after
noon.
Policeman Daniel j. Sheehan, who was
dangerously shot by the burglar Jack.
son, is well enough TO be out
The fifth anniversary exercises Of the
Pensoara Free Kindergarten, which were
held yesterday at i0d X street from /! to (
p. M, greatly interested the audience of
parents.
A number Of candidates received the
twenty first degree on Tuesday night at the
sanctuary Of the A. \. $. II. Masons, 1907
G street. The council was presented with
silvcrpiteher aud salyer by Messrs. W. o.
Roome and Jack Brown.